Dearborn honors Seahawks Super Bowl champion coach Robert Saleh

Former Seattle Seahawks assistant coach Robert Saleh (sixth from right) accepts a key to the city and a proclamation during the Dearborn City Council meeting Tuesday evening. One of his Fordson High School coaches was Councilman Mark Shooshanian (right). Mayor Jack OíReilly (third from right) had presented him with the key. Photo by Joe Slezak/Digital First Media

Robert Saleh, who grew up in the city and was a defensive quality control coach for the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, received a key to the city and a proclamation during the City Council meeting.

Several family members and friends joined Saleh and city officials for the presentation.

It’s been a whirlwind for Saleh, 35, since the Super Bowl Feb. 2 in East Rutherford, N.J., when the Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos, 43-8. After three years with the Seahawks, it was announced Monday that he was hired as the Jacksonville Jaguars’ linebackers coach.

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Saleh, who has been coaching in the NFL for 10 years, is a 1997 Fordson High School graduate, and Mayor Jack O’Reilly said the presentation was the city’s way of showing “our hearts are with him.”

As Saleh, family and friends gathered for the presentation, he hugged Councilman Mark Shooshanian, who was one of his assistant football coaches at Fordson.